Willard Sparking Innovation
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This is my "ignite" format (20 slide/15 sec slide) slide deck from my presentation at NCAIS Innovate Conference on March 11, 2010 at Cary Academy. No Audio, but presentation should be on YouTube Channel soon.
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Mining Practices 2012
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Charlotte’s Future: Growth and the Environment
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Species interactions
This document discusses different types of species interactions including competition, predation, parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism. It provides examples of each type of interaction and how species may coevolve or partition resources in response to competition or predation. Species must adapt to interactions, migrate to avoid negative interactions, or may go extinct if unable to adapt or migrate in response to competition or predation.
Hazardous wastes
1. Hazardous waste landfills are designed with multiple layers to prevent contamination, including compacted waste, clay and plastic linings, leachate collection systems, and groundwater monitoring wells.
2. Common hazardous wastes include cleaning products, paints, pesticides, batteries, motor oil and antifreeze which should not be thrown in the trash or poured down drains but disposed of properly.
3. Transitioning to a low-waste society requires reducing and reusing materials to minimize pollution, following principles like industrial ecology that mimic natural cycles.
Examining MSW
This document discusses municipal solid waste (MSW) in the United States and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina from 1997-2009. It notes that most MSW in the US comes from mining, oil and gas, and agriculture, while municipal waste makes up a small percentage. It also outlines current practices for dealing with MSW, including landfilling, recycling, and incineration. Barriers to increasing recycling rates are discussed, such as low environmental costs and subsidies that favor virgin materials over recycled materials. Potential solutions proposed include taxing resource extraction and requiring government agencies to purchase more recyclables.
NCAIS Presentation Nov 2010
Slide deck for presentation on using social media to extend the science classroom given at the North Carolina Association of Independent Schools Conference on November 5, 2010.
NCSTA Presentation Nov 2010
Slide deck for a presentation on an integrated math/science unit given at the North Carolina Science Teachers Professional Development Institute on November 12, 2010.
Keystone and Foundation Species 2011
The document discusses the concepts of keystone and foundation species through several examples. It describes research showing that the sea star Pisaster ochraceus is a keystone species that controls populations of mussels, maintaining diversity in intertidal communities. Studies on kangaroo rats and prairie dogs also demonstrate how removing these species can transform ecosystems by reducing diversity. Kelp is provided as an example of a foundation species as a dominant primary producer.
Species interactions
This document discusses different types of species interactions including competition, predation, parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism. It provides examples of each type of interaction such as the competitive exclusion of grey squirrels outcompeting red squirrels in Britain. Species may coevolve due to competitive interactions, developing strategies like resource partitioning to coexist. Predator-prey relationships can drive coevolution through evolutionary arms races. Commensal and mutualistic interactions provide benefits to one or both species involved.
Using ClustrMaps
This document describes how a teacher used ClustrMaps to visualize the geographic locations of visitors to his class blog over 10 months. The blog gained over 1600 visitors from countries all around the world, including places in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the Pacific. The map showed the expanding international audience for the class blog over time.
Biomass energy
Presentation to my APES students on types of biofuels (solid, liquid, gas) using mostly my own photos.
Mining Practices & Impacts
The document discusses various mining techniques and their environmental impacts. It describes how minerals are identified and land is acquired for mining under the 1872 Mining Law. Surface mining techniques like open-pit, strip, contour, and mountaintop removal mining are outlined. Subsurface mining techniques like room-and-pillar and longwall mining are also summarized. The document discusses the impacts of mining such as scarring of land, erosion, subsidence, water and air pollution from acid mine drainage and slurry pond spills. It provides an example of reclamation at an abandoned coal mine in Pennsylvania.
HIV/AIDS Lecture
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Succession
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Willard Sparking Innovation
- 1. SPARKING Innovation in Education Heard from those quiet girls lately? Derrick Willard Providence Day School Charlotte, NC
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- 6. Choices, Choices… Image by Flickr user: dkuropatwa
- 8. Wiki!
- 9. The Power Law The Long Tail
- 11. Say What?
- 12. The Power Law The Long Tail
- 13. My Results
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